The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-01-13

There are In Kansas 6,791 school houses
having q total OF 6, 1S0 rooms, and val
ued at So 5e2, 757. School building
costing $1.093.042 have been erected
during the past two years.
The receipts and expenditures fol
school purposes during the school yea
ended July 31st, 1885, were az follows:
Rsceipts-Balsnce 10 district treasures
August 1st, 1885, $519, 251 SO; amount
trIct taxes, 81. 660, 616. 70; from stats and
county school funds, $4O8. 1887; from
sale OF school bonds, $713,704.66; from
all ether sources, $174 969 "a; making 6
total Of 81 476. 791 so.
Expendjtures.-Am paid for teach
ers' wages and SUPERVISION, $9,213, SCI A
f,r rents. repairs, fuel and 1ncidentals
1854. 723 "a; for sites, buildings and furni
ture, $795, ST.. 81; and for all other pur-
Ppsee, $2lS, 745 90; making total of %,
S49, 0l7.59, leaving in hands Of district
1921, 774 10.
The suggestions and recommendation
of the state superintendent, touching the
investment Of permanent school funds
county institutes, and changes In echoo
laws, are respectfully commended to youE
attention.
HIGHER SCHOOLS.
The three great educational institutions
of the state, the University at Lawrence
the Agricultural College at Manhattan
and the Normal School at Emporia, art
all in 9 prosperous condition. with q
steadily-increasing enrolment of stu
dents, constantly improving appliance FOL
educational work, and rapidly expanding
fields of usefulness. They are all justify
ing, by their results, The confidence and
generous support OF the people, an6 the
state can afford to be liberal, though moi
extravagsnt. in providing for their up
building.
The permanent fund of the University
now aggregates gill .210.92; thst OF the
Normal School, $73, 29S.21; and that OF
of these funds will be somewhat increased
by sales OF lands belonging to them.
There are complaints, occasionally, thai
the state has not been liberal in rroVid-
ing for the higher education of its youth
These complaints are not well-founded
Since the admission of Kansas, the appro-
priauons made to these three lnstitu-
tons, for buildings and current expenses
have aggregated 81 OBS ,904.
The State Univsrsity.-Ther reports OF
the regents and other officers OF the Uni
Versity furnish full Information concern.
ing the condition, prospects and needs OF
that institution. The University is stead
lily growing in usefulness, and the high
rank 1t has attained among the great ed1.
cational Institutions of the country ought
to be, to our people, q source of universal
pride. During the last fiscal year 419 stu
dents were in attendance Notwithstanding
the fact that several of the lower classes
had been discounted.
appropriated $50, goo for the erection OF
building to be devoted to natural his
tory. This building has been completed,
and is occupied for the purpose for which
il was provided. It is a beautiful and
substantial structure. 100 by 119 feet, two
full stories, with basement and attic,
and built of native stone. The
lecture room will accommodate $50 stu-
dents. The extensive and valuable col
lection OF the natural history department
have been removed to the new building.
The new department of pharmacy hal
been fully Organized, and had, during itf
arst year. twenty-three students en-
rolled.
The STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
The work, growth and present condi.
ton of this important educational inssi-
tuition arc fully detailed in the reports oi
its regents and officers. The new col
lege hall has been completed; forty -foul
acres have been added to the farm; the
va'ue of the college property has in
creased during the past two years from
S145,e SO to s2O7 ,67s.03 The annua
attendance has increased from S95 to 1923
representing sixty Kansas counties anC
eighteen states. In Its buildings, equip.
ment and grounds, the agricultural col.
lege is admirably adapted for work in iii
special field, and is ElstifyiDg, in the re.
suits OF it's training, the confidence anC
support Of the people.
GTArE NnRNAT The Pornrk
Of the regents and officers of this institu
ton show that it is in very prosperou
condition It's graduates are in demand
a. teachers, and the enrolment of pupil
attending is steadily increasing. Dur.
ing the fiscal year ending June 30th
1885. the enrolment was sos; for thu
next year it reached 724; and, during tn,
present year, it ia believed that fully S0'
young men and women, anxious to quail
lfy themselves as public educators, vii
be in attendance.
The legislature, during it's session Ii
1886, enacted law "to further endov
the State Normal school," by granting {.
| 1t twelve sections Of land, known as th
sAlt-spring lands. The governor wa
directed to appoint three dlsintereste'
persons to sppraise said lands, and tn
board OF regents was authorized to sci
them, upon terms and conditions pre-
| scribed in the act referred to. In accord
anoe with authority thus given, on tn
30th of March, 1886, appointed D. "
Finney. Of EeoshO county, j. F. Billings
Russell county, as appraisers. Thes
gentlemen performed the duties as
signed them in very salts
factory manner. Not single appeal wa
| taken from the valuations made by them
which aggregated $77 800. The board G
regents, through a committee consistin
of MessTs. J. 81. Franklin, W. 81. Cald
well and E. w. Warner. sold all ia
lands, except two quarter sections, at q
| aggregate Of S87 1872. The lands solo
with the exception of one tract, weI
disposed of to resident farmers, all dis
putes conserving the ownership of i'm
| provements and right to purchase beiD
| AmicAbly settled by the committee. tn
| two quarter sections unsold were az
| praised at an aggregate OF 81. 240, and
approve the recommendation Of Ii
| board OF regents that these tT6cts be sol
at private sale. thuE avoiding the expenl
of Requirement and advertising.
No appropriation was made to pay ii
| expense of appraising, advertising al
selling the lands, which aggregate
$500 IS. An appropriation for this pun
pose should be made.
The suggestions and recommendation
of the board, concerning changes al
needed improvements IN the school, d.
serve your eonsiderAte attention.
THE EDUCATIONAL BOARDS.
1t has been suggested that the thrt
boards of regents having charge, severa
ly, Of the University, the Agricultur
college, and the Normal school, ahou
be consolidated, and that one board
given supervision OF all these institution
, do not believe that such Q system
, management would be practical, or q
vantHgeous either to the stA'e or the Il
situations. Each of these schools occupi
} q different field, and the legitimate an
, billions and riVAlries Of each promote 6
efficiency and prosperity Of all. o.
t board could not escape the suspicion,
, indeed it could avoid q real developmel
Of partially. Its recommendatio
in favor Of improvements at o
institution would be regards
f by the others, IS favoritiar
: and thus jealousy, s1iscontent and Al
? mosities, hurtful TO the interests uf 9
would be sDgendered. The expense
. the boards OF regents might be reduct
, as have elsewhere suggested, by ab'
|. ishing the mileage system, but wcr